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I believe it is that account that is looking at +</I>>><i> /var/spool/mail/anne. Perhaps she has such an account on Mageia +</I>>><i> 2 but not in cauldron, which would explain why she does not see +</I>>><i> the error messages on cauldron. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Jim +</I>><i> +</I>><i> On 06/25/2012 05:20 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: +</I>>><i> To be honest I don't recall ever hearing of movemail before +</I>>><i> this, so I don't know where it comes from. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The answer from Jim is the essential thing - no need to mess +</I>><i> around with /var/spool/mailo/anne - Thunderbird can do all this for +</I>><i> you, you just need to create an additional Thunderbird account of +</I>><i> type "Movemail". But it may appear somewhat devious to do this, +</I>><i> Thunderbird playing hide-and-seek with you: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Try to come to the "Account actions" tab in Thunderbird and, +</I>><i> there, hit the "Add other accounts" button. That gives you a radio +</I>><i> button, one of its choices beeing "Unix Mailspool (Movemail)". Once +</I>><i> you are there, you should be on safe ground to create the special +</I>><i> Thunderbird "Movemail" account (what Thunderbird calls an +</I>><i> "account") that collects mail from the Unix /var/spool/mail/anne. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Where Thunderbird stores the local folders for this account is a +</I>><i> totally independant issue, to set this up you proceed just as for +</I>><i> ordinary thunderbird accounts. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I use such an account all the time to collect the messages created +</I>><i> locally, for instance by msec - works great. +</I>><i> +</I>Ridiculous as it sounds, it seems that I had already set up such an +account, called System. I discovered it when following up from +Frank's suggestion of testing through Mail. The truth is that I did +this install between hospital visits to my mother, and clearly my +brain was addled, so I did things that I don't remember. + +Sorry for all the noise. The up-side is that I've learned things - +always good. + +When I came to Mageia I said it felt like coming home. The helpful +discussions on the Mageia lists remind me forcibly of my early Linux +days, in Mandrake 8. The community was so supportive of a learner. +As I've joined mailing lists of other distributions I've really seen +what an example is set here. :-D + +Anne +- -- +Need KDE help? 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